Tiny House: Maximizing Space

I Look for Space Where Others Don’t

I’ve lived in small spaces most of my life, and when I ended up in New York City, it didn't change much! Even when I rented a pretty large loft, I built 5 bedrooms and filled the place with my friends, to the point where living with 9 people made the place feel small…!

Since I’ve been here I had wanted to become a professional Space Maximizer. You know, put out an ad online, print flyers and hustle to find clients who would be willing to hire me as their create more space in my tiny apartment consultant! This little entrepreneurial venture never got started, but I did continue to create more space wherever I lived.

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And today as I was creating extra space in our kitchen I thought I could show you guys what I’m talking about and perhaps some of you may get inspired to do something similar.

I do not claim to have invented the following… I’m sure I’ve seen this somewhere else before and thought it was genius!

Here’s for freeing up your shelves or counter and how to do it:

The Tools and Ingredients

• A screw driver or screw gun.
• Small screws (make sure they are small enough so they won't stick out the other side of your cabinets!).
• As many wide mouth jars as you have space for where you want them. (I've only used jars from our fridge or pantry, we aim for a zero waste household, whenever we can)
• The same amount of lids as the jars you want to put up.

The DiY Recipe

• Clean the jars you collected. An easy way to take the labels off is by soaking the jars in cold water for swveral hours (we usually let them soak over night).
• Clean the jars again and dry completely.
• Chose and mark the placement of your jars on the underside of your cabinet. I centered ours and spaced them four fingers apart in a straight line. (It's easier to do with the cap of the jar alone, by the way. Though if your jar is really massive, you may want to check it whole!)
• Place the first cap on your first mark and screw it up into the cabinet. (It may help to start the first screw on a countertop or some kind of work surface, make sure you place a scrap piece of wood under the cap, the screw will go through!)
• I think a minimum of three screws per cap is descent, and screw them in a triangle pattern (like the 3 points of an equilateral triangle). In my opignion, two screw may not be sturdy enough.

• Repeat the process for the amaount of jars you have.
• Fill your jars up with whatever you want, screw them up into the cap and Voilà!

For packages of specialty items and wild rice mixes, we cut the cooking directions off the box them came in and tape it onto the back of the jar for easy access!

I hope you liked this little DiY trick for saving space. It helped me a lot!

Untill next time...

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